1,410 search results for “history of news” in the Staff website
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Antheun JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Christine MertensFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Developer of new Indonesian capital to work together with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus
Nusantara Capital Authority (OIKN), which is in charge of developing Indonesia’s new capital city entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities on 18 March on knowledge sharing and joint research.
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Executive Board column: Downtime as a source of new inspiration
We asked a lot of everyone last year. The Personnel Monitor showed that the workload was high in 2022 and Covid took its toll. I therefore think everyone deserves some downtime. Time away from the daily grind.
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Maarja SeireFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Maartje van der Woude member of new Police Academic Advisory Board
Police, administrators and other parties will from now on have access to the advice of the new Academic Advisory Board for the Police. Maartje van der Woude, professor of socio-legal studies, is one of the members of this council.
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and why messages were ciphered in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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Jay HuangFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marijana VujosevicFaculty of Humanities
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Jorrit SmitFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Claire VergerioFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kees Verduin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline van EckFaculty of Humanities
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Da JinFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Kiri ParamoreFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID
Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance this year. A total of 3,412 first-year students from Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden, accompanied by 486 mentors, started EL…
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations (LUCIR) is widely regarded as an expert on civil wars and conflicts. Her new book, Rebels and Conflict Escalation,…
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Oran KennedyFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf van Vliet in AD on the impact of new technology on jobs
Technological developments never stop. Machines can already perform many tasks and in the future they will probably take over even more of the work we do. Which jobs could disappear and which will remain in the future? Olaf van Vliet, Professor of Economics at Leiden Law School, commented on these issues…
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Gerhard-Jan NautaFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities